Editorial: Another FEMA folly

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Gov. Rick Perry is right to be fed up with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's unfulfilled promises to help clean up the Texas Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike.

Trailers didn't arrive in the numbers promised. Some that did were padlocked and unusable. But if that's not enough of slap in the face to hurricane victims, FEMA now is trying to dump cleanup costs it should pay onto Texas counties.

The mess is compounded by the lack of straight answers. Gov. Perry's office tells us that President George W. Bush didn't even know of the Texas request for aid when the governor spoke with the president by phone last week.

Gov. Rick Perry is right to be fed up with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's unfulfilled promises to help clean up the Texas Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike.

Trailers didn't arrive in the numbers promised. Some that did were padlocked and unusable. But if that's not enough of slap in the face to hurricane victims, FEMA now is trying to dump cleanup costs it should pay onto Texas counties.

The mess is compounded by the lack of straight answers. Gov. Perry's office tells us that President George W. Bush didn't even know of the Texas request for aid when the governor spoke with the president by phone last week.

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